COMPLEXITY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN DYNAMIC SYSTEMS

Abstract

Complexity is worth studying as a subject for its own sake. We intend to investigate complexity in the context of a fairly broad class of dynamical systems (known as sequential machines). A sequential machine is a perfectly good model of an organization (or organism) which strives for survival, acting under resource and time constraints. For a given complexity level of the system design we could find the level of contact indicating—roughly—the level of understanding of the system transformation. We call this the control complexity. The “information technology” is generated by the lattice of partitions of the state space of the system realized by a serial‐parallel decomposition into component systems.

Citation

GOTTINGER, H.W. (1975), "COMPLEXITY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN DYNAMIC SYSTEMS", Kybernetes, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 129-141. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005387